Prepared-roofing shingle strip



R. B. CRABBS.

PREPARED ROOFING SHINGLE STRIP.

APPLICATION FILED MAY24, 1919.

1,415,923. Patented M y 16, 1922 JNVENTOR BY -4CZu /v 12" 01min UNITED. STATES RJOSCOE B. CRAIBBS, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO,

ASSIGNOR TO THE PHILIP MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

PREPARED-ROOFING SHINGLE STRIP.

Application filed May 24,

To all whom it may concern: e it known that I, Roscoe B. Games, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented Improvements in Prepared-Roofing Shingle Strips, of which the following is a specification. My invention relates to roofing, particularly to prepared roofing made in the form of a shingle strip, that is, a roofing made so that when applied in position on a roof it resembles a roofing formed of shingles. These shingle strips are made in any of the various methods of making prepared roofing by combining one or more plies of roofing felt or similar material saturated with a preservative and waterproofing material and coating with a bituminous coating and then surfaced with a crushed slate, gravel, sand or other suitable fire resisting material. Heretofore roofing shingle strips have been made of this character by cutting portions of the roofing material away, thereby exposing the underlying shingle strip, so as to resemble the spaces between shingles; the result of this is that each shingle has three edges exposed to the weather and the corners of the shingles are liable to be mutilated. My invention is especially arranged so as to overcome these objections. My shingle strip is completely covered over its entire surface with a mineral or similar surfacing such as crushed slate, crushed asbestos asbestos fibre, asbestos sand or other suitable material except at the portions resembling the spaces between adjacent shin 'les when the surfacing material is omitte in the manufacture or is removed so as to expose other material which is contrasting in appearance and gives the effect oii spaces between the shingles. I have also found that I can make my improved shingle strips of roofing either longitudinally or laterally of the strip. In my improved shingle strip there is only one edge, which is a continuous, straight edge, exposed to the elements when in place on the roof.

In the drawings in which like characters relate to like parts,

Fig. 1 is a top view. Fig. 2 a sectional view of Fig. 1.

I have shown in the drawings my invention as it is embodied in a strip shingle; that is, a form of prepared roofing in which Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 16, 1922.

1919. Serial No. 299,538:

the roofing is arranged in strips of suitable length divided laterally by lines or marks to divide it into a plurality of subdivisions so that when used on the roof the appearance is given of a plurality of individual shingles laid in place. These shingle strips are formed, of what I will for convenience call, the shingle end, that is, the portion of the strip which is exposed when in position on the building and the strip body.

which is the portion which when fixed in position on the building is covered by the next adjacent layer of shingles.

In the drawings I have marked the shingle end that is the lower or exposed, when in use, portion of the shingle as A and the strip body that is the upper or covered, when in use, portion of the shingle as B. These shingle strips are made by using any suitable number of plies D of material, such as felt, paper, burlap or other suitable material saturated with an asphalt or other bituminous hydrocarbon substance adapted to preserve the said material and weather and waterproof same. When two or more plies are used as shown in Fig. 2 they are bonded together by a bonding layer D of asphalt compound or other suitable material. Applied to the surface of these plies is a coating or layer of asphalt compound or other suitable bituminous material C, covering the shingle end or lower portion A and the strip body or upper portion 13-01 the strip. On this coatipg material I apply a surfacing layer E of crushed slate or other suitable crushed stone or mineral particles depending upon the material to form the finished or wearing surface of the shingle. This layer E of crushed slate or similar material is applied so that it completely covers the surface of both the strip. body, i. e., the upper portion; andshingle end, i. e., the lower portion, of the shingle except that in the shingle end A I leave portions or channel like lines between areas of the crushed slate E so as to form lines F, there by sub-dividing the shingle strip into a plurality of shingles integral with each other.

In the preferred form of my invention the lines E separate only the lower or exposed portion of the shingles, so that in laying the shingle strip no more of the strip may be shown than is equivalent to-the distance from the lower edge or end of the shingle to the edge or lower end of the next above adjacent layer of shingles. The exposed portion of the shingle cannot be greater than the length of the lines F which separate the lower or. exposed errds A of the shingle strip.

In the manufacture of my improvement the strip shingles may be manufactured in many ways, although I prefer to manufacture them in one of the following methods: Taking a strip of paper or roofing felt, say 20 wide or multiples thereof-this is passed through a saturating bath of asphalt or other bituminous material Where the felt is saturated so as to'preserve it and make it weather proof, after which it is run ting machine and cut into strips, t .e cutter of the machine preferably cutting across the str p of roofing, bisecting the lines, separating the shingles, so that the two lower edges of a set of shingles are adjacent to each other and the upper edges of two shingles or two sets of shingles are adjacent to each other.

What I claim is: v

A shingle strip having a body portion, portions representative of spaced shingle ends, and portions between said last named portions extending from one edge of the strip to points intermediate opposite edges of the strip, to simulate spaces between shingles, said strip being composed of a 1 base saturated with bituminous material having an area co-extensive with all of said portions, a layer of bituminous bonding material on said base'and having an area at least co-eXtensive with said bodyportion and portions representative of shingle ends, and a layer of mineral particles arranged over the entire body portion and portions representative of shingle ends, the portion of the strip covered with mineral particles being of uniform thickness throughout, and the portions of the-strip simulating spaces between shingles being free of mineral particles and of less thickness than the mineral surfaced portion by an amount substantially equal to the depth of the mineral covering. I

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

Roscoe B. omens. 

